Architect, educator, and artist Victor Steinbrueck helped foster responsible civic development though his efforts in promoting revitalization programs for the city of Seattle. Along with many others, Steinbrueck's work to raise awareness of Seattle's historic and architectural significance resulted in the city's adoption of historic preservation ordinances, including the one that made Pioneer Square the city's first National Register district in 1970. These drawings were part of a study he conducted of that area in the late 1960s, early 1970s. The buildings along this street, the Smith, Squire, Crown Hotel, and Maud became part of an area of the city, which thrived as a result of the 1897 Gold Rush. The Maud Building was designed in 1889 and completed in 1890 by Saunders & Houghton. The building was built for William Maud and housed a hotel on its upper floors. The L. C. Smith Block, designed for Lyman Cornelius Smith, was completed in 1900 and designed by architect Max Umbrecht. This building was constructed as a warehouse with a storefront at its ground level. The Squire Building was designed by Charles Bebb in 1900. The building was commissioned by Samuel E. Squires, who had become rich during the Klondike Gold Rush and was originally known as the Squires Building until the 's' was dropped several years later. The upper floors of the neighboring building housed the Crown Hotel from 1912 to 1928. Although simpler in detailing, the hotel uses metal, sometimes with geometric designs, as trim, to great effect. It may also have been designed by Bebb. The Bread of Life Mission sits on the former site of Doc Maynard's original general store. Built by Buchele & Hummell, the building housed a hotel between 1889 and 1890. Although built post-fire, it has a particularly Victorian flavor with the gridlike composition of its facade, the ornamentation over the flattened segmental arches and wooden bays. The Bread of Life Mission took over the building in 1945.